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Melody Joy Kramer

@mkramer.bsky.social
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engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl! 🌈 melodykramer.github.io

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 11h
bones
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 11h
bones
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 11h
I have tried to post a picture of the skeletons in my yard several times and I‘m now worried they are queued up and will come out in a heap at 2am.
bones
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
teaching my father in law how to play set
set
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
an unencrypted license plate spotted
http
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This pancake is amazing and hearing people talk about their first American breakfast is also great.
breakfast
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my one super touristy photo this trip
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
carrboro nc
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
carrboro music festival 2026
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Carrburritos is now open in its new location, which is still in Carrboro
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
carrboro
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
friday night
set
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
owl update: Was tracking Coconut, our dog, so Coconut was taken inside instead of becoming a midday snack.
not today, owl.
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
owl
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
they are all variants of this. certainly a strategy!
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
rocks
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my father-in-law collects stones on his walks and then glues them into shapes.
love
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How I realized I was texting one of my children and not my spouse
emoji
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a really cool evening with some of the best puppeteers in the country.
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Chapel Hill evening
paper hand puppets
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is both unpleasant - Coconut‘s nails are digging into my legs - and highly pleasant.
coconut
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
how we afternoon thunderstorm
coco
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
there are two wrinkle in time movies and we are watching both of them - currently in the one with oprah
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Double feature.
wrinkle in time
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Coconut Pumpernickel spent a great deal of time howling this morning. We troubleshooted - food, water? potty? No. She wanted to sit in the back of the car. She is fine now.
coco
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Saturday.
saturday
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Discovered today that Dolly Parton visited Carrboro and specifically our town sushi restaurant, which has this picture up.
dolly in carrboro
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the outfits we got for a new human in the world
new human clothing
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
♟️
chess
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
everyone except coconut
not reading
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the cool S is alive and well in carrboro
cool s
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
reading my beautiful friend, surrounded by large chess trophies
chess
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
coconut got trapped between the couch and the ottoman and seems resigned to the fact that this is her life now
trapped
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Like one of those spy images taken at a great distance.
coco
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
At the dog park, where a dog patiently sat and waited for Coconut Pumpernickel to play. How it started. How it’s going.
waiting chasing
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
my children are attending camp this week at a high school where we’ve been watching incoming seniors paint their parking spots all week during drop off and pick up
hungry caterpillars monopolyrainbowsplaces you’ll go
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
there are so. many. variants.
so many
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
never ending game
fluxx
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
❤️
presidents daughter
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I feel like I’m doing something illicit in the lobby with my box of card games.
cardscards
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The last picture I took before the outage
richard nixon
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
what a vacation
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
thematic road trip music
tmbg
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
my phone camera has some kind of software bug where it randomly covers some photos with black squares but I kind of like it
redacted
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
turning our dining room - which we never used - into a gym.
lil gym
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
bingo night at the pool
bingo
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
pittsboro nc does a good ice cream sundae.
ice cream
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
slushie
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
this was just slipped under my door
boom
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